Amy Russell and Chris Scagnelli
Amy Russell and Chris Scagnelli, Academic Support and Achievement Program, conducted presentations at the annual SUNY Council on Writing conference. Russell presented “Ignore the Writing: A Framework to Recognize and Validate Student Learning” and Scagnelli presented “I H8 Numb3rs: A Skill-Building Activity for Numeracy and Research Writing.” Both presentations were delivered on Oct. 20 in Farmingdale, N.Y. to multi-national audience.
Tracy Hudson
Tracy Hudson, Physical Education Department, and the students in her Edu 470 class took part in a panel discussion at the 2022 International Alliance of Invitational Education World Conference via Zoom with university students from Hong Kong. The session title was “Creating a Culture of Care by Taking an I-CORT Stance: A Promising Theory of Practice for New Teachers Entering the Field.”
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, presented a paper on March 30 at the Society for Applied Anthropology in Baltimore, Md. Her paper, titled “Exchanging Memories, Emotions and a Little Cash: Alternative Economic Exchange in the US Garage Sale,” covered extended case studies of garage sale participants who sold items that still retained important emotional value and/or memories. She also addressed how the sellers incorporated their emotional values into the exchange.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Program and Clark Center for Global Engagement, had his review published in the Romanian Journal of Indian Studies. He reviewed two books about the relations between India and the European Union: Changing Indian Images of the European Union Perception and Misperception and India and the European Union in a Turbulent World, both edited by Rajendra K. Jain.
Joshua Peluso
Joshua Peluso, Systems Administration and Web Services, served on a panel to discuss “Web Apps and Responsive Web Design,” at the SUNY Technology Conference held June 18 in Lake Placid, N.Y. The panel discussion was sponsored by the SUNY Council of Chief Information Officers.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, co-authored two abstracts presented at the American Astronomical Association Division of Planetary Sciences 46th annual meeting held Nov. 10-14 in Tucson, Ariz.: “Overcoming the Meter Barrier and The Formation of Systems with Tightly-packed Inner Planets (STIPs)” and “Measuring Fracture Properties of Meteorites: 3D Scans and Disruption Experiments.” As an attendee, she was invited to view a live feed of the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander, marking history of humans landing a spacecraft on a comet.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently was interviewed for the Washington Post's TikTok feature "Variant Cover," about "review bombing" and fan backlash to feminism in the new Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The story can be viewed online.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, had her article, “Hermann von Ihering: Shifting Realities of a German Brazilian Scientist from the Late Empire to World War I,” published in the Special Edition: Germans and Brazilians issue of the Oxford Journal German History.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, was a plenary speaker at the recent conference “Decolonizing Epistemologies, Methodologies and Ethics: Postcolonial-Feminist Interventions,” hosted on July 2 by the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies, The Cluster of Excellence: The Formation of Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, was a featured reader in July at New York City’s famed Cornelia Street Cafe. He read from his most recent published work as well as work in progress.